Meaning not yet researched.
Melani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 234 in 2025. Its best rank was #990 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #990 in 2020; #1,056 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Melani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,056 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #990.
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Melani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 234 girls in 2025. Peak: #990 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 258 (2020).
In 2025, 234 US girls were named Melani, making it the 1,056th most common girls’ name of the year, down 46 places from #1,010 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 254 girls named Melani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #990, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #1,754 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Melani in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 5,912 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,486 babies named Melani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,174 US girls were named Melani; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 258. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,869 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Melani ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #327 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melanie (263,254 babies since 1880), Melany (17,384 babies since 1880), Melania (3,573 babies since 1880) and Milani (11,656 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Melani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 7 | #327 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #597 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #721 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #792 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #853 | #2,529 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #881 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #882 | — |
| California | 31 | #928 | #1,413 |
| Maryland | 5 | #953 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #963 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,001 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,002 | #910 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,031 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #1,039 | #1,100 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,083 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,165 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,190 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,196 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,212 | #2,153 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 234 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 2024 | 254 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2023 | 227 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2021 | 222 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 2020 | 258 | #990 | — | — |
| 2019 | 235 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2018 | 205 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2016 | 147 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 2010 | 134 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2007 | 163 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2005 | 126 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,471 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,580 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,842 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).